Is Dow at YOUR school? If so, perhaps it’s time they were
expelled! Dow has donated more than $60 million to schools across
the country, and colleges and universities, in turn, have invested
nearly $120 million in Dow. Dow also spends tens of millions of
dollars on research every year at schools across the country (such
as this Nebraska study, which actually
involved students) and heavily recruits the brightest minds
that schools and students have to offer. Frankly, our institutions
of learning are a central strategic, reputational, and financial
interest to Dow. This raises two interesting points:

Do
we really want Dow – a company with a long
and ugly history of chemical terror – associated with
our institutions of learning? Should our schools
be tarnished by Dow’s profiteering from human suffering and
slaughter?

Find out if Dow is at your school by browsing the information below.
If they are, spread the word – and then do
something about it.

Decide
What You’re Looking For
What information are you looking for, and how might it be used?
Make a list of research questions (prioritize it) and plan ahead.

Decide
How to Proceed

How
much time do I have to do the research? Set a timeline.

Who
will know answers to my questions? Has the research already been
done? Think creatively and broadly.

Who
are my allies? Who will be willing to share research duties?

Make
a realistic plan, and assign responsibility.

Do
the research. Build relationships, cultivate sources, and document
and confirm your findings. Be persistent - if you don't find it
the first time, try another source, search term, or tactic.

Report
back and assess your findings.

Public
vs. Private
If you attend a public school or college, their records are open
to public scrutiny. You have a right to ask for and receive any
information. If you attend a private school or college, they are
under no obligation to reveal anything. You have no right, even
as a consumer of their education product, to find out anything about
them, unless the information is available through their connection
with a public agency of some sort. This isn’t to say that
you can’t get the information – you can. You’ll
just have to be a little more creative.

Open Records Requests
Your state has a law known either as a "Right-to-Know"
Act or as an "Open Records" Law. This law should not be
confused with the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). While
FOIA applies to federal institutions, your state's right to know
laws will apply to everything run by your state, county or local
governments, including state universities, community colleges and
public grade schools. If you submit a request to a public institution,
they’re legally required to provide the information (with
certain exceptions). However you may be charged a copying fee, so
it’s usually wise to request that you be contacted if the
copying charges exceed a certain amount. Bear in mind that although
a response is usually required within 10 business days, it may take
up to a month to receive the information you’re looking for.
Unfortunately, private institutions are not subject to open records
laws, and you may find it impossible to use open records requests
to get information about private schools or about donations made
to public college foundations, which are private.

A sample Bhopal request is available
here. Since Open Records laws vary from state to state, use
this letter generator to
draft your own request. Find out where to send an Open Records
Request by going to your university’s website or calling the
office of financial affairs/business administration or a similar
office. It shouldn’t be too difficult.

Be Nice to Secretaries and Other Staff
Many of the people you'll be dealing with are secretaries. Secretaries
are not your enemy and they can be very powerful friends. They may
be low in the campus hierarchy, but they have access to lots of
paperwork and documents that you may want.

Be Prepared to be Interrogated
No matter who you ask and no matter whether it's public information
or not, nine times out of ten, you'll be asked a lot of questions.
Be prepared to answer: “What are your names and how can I
contact you?” “What do you want this information for?
What do you plan to do with it?” “What group are you
with? Are you with the newspaper?” “Is this for a class?
Which one?”

It's best not to outright lie in response to these questions. If
you lie and say it's for a class, you'll have to be ready to say
which class and who the teacher is in case they ask. It's okay to
be vague or exaggerate a bit, but outright lying may catch you really
unprepared and can hurt you if you can't follow it up or if you
get caught.

Administrators are generally savvy enough to know that you're not
just doing this for no reason or out of simple academic curiosity.
You can try to say that you’re not sure what you'll do with
the information at this point or you can give some soft answers
which only hint at the full range of what you might do with the
info. Definitely don't be blunt and say that you're looking for
any information you can use to attack the university with. It won't
help!

Don't let the interrogation go deeper than you want it to go. Take
advantage of pauses in the conversation to change the topic and
ask questions of your own.

Put Requests in Writing
Especially at public schools. Start a paper trail. If you get denied
information (no matter whether it's public information or not),
ask that the denial be in writing and on letterhead. This paper
trail will prove useful as you decide how to move forward.

Format
Try requesting any information in digital form, if possible (sound
like you're making it easy for them by allowing them to email it
to you). This may work for lists of research grants, investments
and, in rare cases, for contracts.

Interviews
If nothing else works (particularly if you’re at a private
college or university) you may want to try gathering the information
you need with a sit-down interview. These should usually be saved
until the end of your research – at this stage you’ll
have a much clearer idea of what you still need to know, and how
to find it out.

Prepare for your interviews: brush up on your jargon and background
knowledge; work out three or four different ways in which you can
squeeze out the information you require, and anticipate possible
responses. Decide beforehand whether you're going to leave your
source friendly or hostile to you after the interview.

Bear in mind that schools contain many people. If one is unhelpful,
you can always try someone else, possibly with a different alias.
Looking at the university’s website beforehand, or even talking
to a receptionist, may give you an idea of how the university’s
structured and with whom you’ll want to speak. Getting direct
line numbers is always useful. On the other hand, if you ask two
different people for the same information, they might both go to
the same colleague for it. So be careful there.

Always document your interviews, including time, place, who you
spoke to and their position, any alias you used, major points, important
quotes.

In interviews, open-ended questions allow the subject to tell you
more - you may get something unexpected. Throw in a few dummy questions
to put your subject at ease and if necessary cover your real interests.
Look for leads (eg other people) as well as answers. What the subject
doesn't want to talk about may provide interesting leads.

Your University

It’s up to you whether you tell your source who you really
are. That may lead to them seeing you as an enemy and not helping.
If you tell them you’re someone else, adopt an identity of
someone they actively want to talk to (i.e. it’s in their
interests) – a potential customer, client, supplier, employee,
journalist, local historian etc. It often helps to flatter the school
or the person you’re talking to, to make them feel at ease
and relaxed. And give them an opportunity to boast (e.g "I
know that the University of the Tasty Rutabaga receives lots of
money from leading corporations…” “Yes we do!
Why, we just received a check for $50,000 from Dow last week!”

Generally it’s easier to be someone of low rank – this
is less threatening, and gives you an excuse for not knowing the
answer to all their questions ("I’ll have to ask my boss
/ client"). If you can throw in chatty comments, that helps
too ("sorry about my voice, I’ve got this throat bug",
"I can’t find my notes, our office is just being re-decorated",
"when I took my daughter to school this morning…",
etc). Occasionally you might find it useful to be more authoritative
and confident, and semi-intimidate your interviewee into helping
you.

When using an alias, try to keep a grain of truth in it, so that
you can talk about yourself if pushed. It's probably worth keeping
a note of who you are somewhere - forgetting your own name, for
instance, can be highly embarrassing! If you're meeting subjects
in person, remember that people tend to be remembered by their most
prominent features (e.g. "oh yeah - the guy with the red hair
/ round glasses / lapel badge / stammer"). You should therefore
cover any memorable features of yourself, and create some that you
don't usually have. If you normally smoke, don't. If you don't wear
glasses, do, etc.

If you’re at a college or university, your school most likely
has a heap of money (called an endowment) that it invests in the
stock market to make extra money for the school (it may also invest
a substantial amount through its pension fund). Your school probably
invests in hundreds or thousands of corporations, one of which may
be Dow.

What to find out

Does
your school own shares in Dow through its endowment, pension fund,
or otherwise? If so, how many, and what’s their approximate
value?

What’s
the overall size of your school’s endowment in comparison?
With this information, you should be able to figure out the percentage
that your school invests in Dow (it’s probably very small).

Some
schools have a policy of investing based only on fiduciary concerns
(a.k.a. only money matters). Since the 1980s, when many schools
divested from Apartheid, some schools have adopted social criteria
for investing their funds. Are any social or environmental screens
applied to your school's investments? If so, what are they?

Does
the school have a policy for voting on (or even co-filing) social
or environmental shareholder proposals?

How to find out?
If your school is public, you should be able to find out most of
not all of what you’re looking for by filing an Open
Records Request. One catch: some public universities have private
non-profit foundations, like "Foundation for Blah University"
or "Blah University Foundation," which are separate entities
from the school itself and handle some or all of the school's investments.
This means that, even though it might be for a public school, the
information is private and they have no obligation to tell you.

If your school is private, you may have to be a little
more creative. A good place to start is in your school's administration
building. Once you're there, look to see if there’s a financial
office other than the type of office that would deal with student
stuff (i.e. not your student loan office and not where you pay tuition).

If you can't figure it out easily, stop in any office and do this:
..........• Be
confident, calm and very polite. Dress a little nicer than usual.
..........• Tell
the person you see that you're trying to find the office that deals
with the university's investments. ..........• After
one or two references, you should be in the right place.

You'll probably need to ask a secretary your question first. Ask
if this is the office that has a list of university investments,
and who is the right person to ask for a copy of it. Generally,
someone will appear from an office tucked away behind the secretary
and will grant you a few minutes of their time. Sometimes, you'll
be told that the person you need to speak to is out of town, in
a meeting or otherwise unavailable. If so, find out exactly when
would be a good time for you to come back and find this person.
You may be given a chance to set up a meeting with this person;
if so, take it.

If you get to speak to someone who knows about investments, you'll
have to explain what you're looking for. Here's what you can say:
..........• "Hi.
We're interested in getting a copy of the school's investments."
Or:..........• "Could
you please explain how the university’s endowment is invested
in corporations, bonds and mutual funds?" Note: This is an okay time to act a bit ignorant. If you're
too confident here, they'll be even more suspicious. Also, it’s
wise to give them a chance to feel the need to teach you how things
work. You'll want to have them teach you as much as they can, so
you can learn the system. Take notes and ask as many questions as
you feel comfortable asking.

What NOT to do: Don't confuse the school investing
in corporations with "investing in the school." Nearly
all schools are non-profit and it's not possible to "invest
in the school." If you act as though you're asking how to invest
in the school, they'll think you're bat crazy.

Expect to be interrogated a bit and handle this as best you can.
If your school has a money manager like a bank investing on their
behalf, or if they’re invested through a mutual fund, they
may claim that they don't know what they're invested in. Although
it’s true that their investments are always changing, they
can find out what they are if they want to and they can provide
a "snapshot." Penn State University, after pressure from
students, agreed this past year to start releasing a "snapshot"
of their investments each summer. You can ask for something similar.

If that doesn’t work, there are other avenues that you should
look into. Most investments are overseen by of the President’s
office and the Board of Trustees. Going into their section of your
school’s website will probably shed some light on how the
investments are handled. It will be relatively easy to get information
that has already been processed for distribution to alumni, current
and prospective students, parents, local governments and others.
However it may be challenging to obtain fully sufficient answers
to the range of questions you are asking. It will require an investigative
spirit, along with much time and patience! You or other members
of your group or coalition may need to seek out and talk with a
range of college officials.

You may also find that your university library is a valuable source
of information. Explain to your reference librarian the sort of
information that you’re looking for and ask for their suggestions
and advice.

If You Don’t Get the Information
If someone at the school refuses to give you the investment portfolio,
then try to talk with some faculty members who will support what
you're doing. Ask these faculty members for help in securing the
portfolio. Get your school and community newspaper involved and
let them know that the school is refusing to allow students to view
the portfolio: "maybe they have something to hide." Get
the Student Government and Faculty Senate to pass resolutions in
favor of an investment disclosure policy. Garner as much support
as you can, and try again.

Dow buys influence at schools across the country by funding buildings,
renovations, endowed professorships, programs, science centers,
scholarships, research, lecture series, conferences, and by making
at-large grants to schools and individual departments. Sometimes
Dow participates in advisory boards that may help oversee such things
as faculty hiring, student recruitment, curriculum content, and
graduate research programs. Funding may come directly from the Dow
Corporation, or may be channeled through the Dow Foundation or one
of its subsidiaries. Dow typically funds engineering departments,
business schools, and public health departments, but it may also
fund environmental departments, risk assessment research, or technical
training programs.

This buys influence

Has Dow bought influence at your school? If your school is public,
you should be able to find out by filing an Open
Records Request. One catch: some public universities have private
non-profit foundations, like "Foundation for Blah University"
or "Blah University Foundation," which are separate entities
from the school itself and handle some or all of the contributions
made to the school. This means that, even though you may attend
a public institution, you may have to be a little more creative
in your research.

One great source of information may be your own school’s
website. It’s likely that you will find dozens, if not hundreds
of pages that catalogue Dow’s associations with your college
or university in detail. If Dow sponsors an event, they’ll
often be thanked on the event’s webpage. Your university or
a college department will probably also thank Dow for its at-large
contributions in either a presidential report or a fiscal review.
If Dow made a special donation to fund a building project or an
endowed professorship, there may be a university press release available
on the web that highlights the contribution.

Although it may seem like dreary work, it’s often very effective
to scroll through university websites looking for connections. Most
colleges and universities have a ‘search’ option that
allows you to find matching pages on the university web. Sometimes
the search box is even on the university homepage; if not, a link
should appear. Try typing in “Dow Chemical”; ‘“Dow
Chemical” AND contribution’ (or donation or grant);
and ‘“Dow Chemical” AND Foundation.’ See
what comes up and scroll through the pages!

One variant: your college or university most likely offers free
access to Lexis Nexis for
students. You may have to go through a library computer or enter
a school ID. Lexis Nexis allows you to search years of media documentation
- newspapers, news wires, etc. The Guided News Search provides options
for selecting a preferred media type as well as searching for various
terms throughout the articles. Students will usually want to select
General, Business and University news.

When accepting Dow’s funding or announcing the establishment
of a Dow chair, prominent college administrators will often announce
that the contribution only furthers the intimate relationship that
the college and the company already share. Such quotes are worth
their weight in gold if you can find them, as they can demonstrate
how closely related your college and Dow really are. You’ll
most often find them featured in university press releases, which
may be available on the web. If not, check your university’s
News and Information Bureau.

You may also find that your university library is a valuable source
of information. Explain to your reference librarian the sort of
information that you’re looking for and ask for their suggestions
and advice.

If you’re at a medium- to large-sized university, chances
are your school gets a good deal of money from research grants.
Depending on what your school specializes in, these may include
substantial research projects funded by Dow. The research itself
may be for something good – though, knowing
Dow, it’s more likely for something bad (students: here’s
one example). In any case, your mission, should you choose to
accept it, is to find out what research Dow’s funding at your
school – once you know, you can make life difficult for Dow,
and build on the pressure for them to accept responsibility for
Bhopal.

So how do you find out? If your school is public, you should be
able to get the information by filing an Open Records
Request. If your school is private, as in so many things, you
may have to be a little more creative.

Your Office of Sponsored Projects (or Grants and Contracts Office?
So many names…) should maintain a yearly catalog of grants
that lists the amount, principal investigator (the professor doing
the research), title and sponsor of the project. This list should
give you a general picture of corporate sponsored research at your
university. Track down your school's office and ask for it. Caution:
research contracts themselves often include 100 pages of irrelevant
information, so it’s best to choose what you want carefully
before becoming inundated with paper.

Another source of information is your school’s webpage. Search
the site, be creative and follow the links. Also, surf the web pages
of researchers, professors, and labs at your university. Most often
the funding agency will be listed somewhere on the page. For quick
searches use the "find" option on your browser by holding
the “Control” and “F” keys at the same time.

If you’re lucky, your school may have a University/Industry
Relations Office: a university office dedicated to linking researchers
with industry! Check out their information and ask them for help.

Does Dow recruit on your campus? If you’re at a medium- to
large-sized university, or if you’re known for your excellent
programs in chemistry, engineering, business, or bullshit, it probably
does. The question is: should it? At the very least you can make
their life difficult by giving their potential employees the other
side of the story – the story that
they won’t be getting in the interview room.

The first place to look is your school’s Career Development
Office (or something similar) which usually keeps track of all the
recruitment interviews and events that take place on campus. Try
asking – but if you want to find out, it’s best not
to introduce yourself as a troublemaker. Instead, try posing as
a chemist, an engineer, or someone else with a legitimate interest
in working for Dow, and request a calendar of upcoming recruitment
events. Later on, it might be interesting to know whether your school
has any standards for admitting employers on campus (if it admits
Dow, it probably doesn’t).

Larger colleges and universities often arrange several on-campus
career fairs per semester, inviting students to mingle with prospective
employers. Sometimes a special "corporate week" is reserved
for large firms. These events include slideshows and question-and-answer
sessions designed to persuade students to work for the company.
These would be a good place to look for Dow, and possibly rain on
their parade. Depending on your school, Dow may also arrange interviews
through university departments, and it may be difficult to find
out about these from a central source. Try asking around –
but try not to arouse too much suspicion.

Now that you know whether Dow is associated with your university,
you can decide what to do about it. Read through the Students for
Bhopal campaigns and develop a plan for the coming year. One of
the first steps in any plan will probably involve bringing your
research to light, so prepare to go public by using your campus
or local media.

You may also find it useful to compile everything into a one- or
two-page factsheet. Be sure to cite your sources and organize associations
into categories (here's
an example). This factsheet can then be passed out at your events,
publicized with your college newspaper, or presented to your university
with petition signatures calling on the university to take action.
Whatever it is that you decide to do, the information that you gather
may prove to be a valuable justification and useful tool for the
Bhopal organizing that you do on your campus.

The following information has been collected over the past two
years by Students for Bhopal. In most cases, this information was
obtained through the use of Open Records Requests
(documentation available on request). It reveals that Dow has donated
more than $60 million to schools across the country, and that colleges
and universities, in turn, have invested nearly $120 million in
Dow. Schools are listed alphabetically below. If you have additional
information that should be added to this page, please contact Ryan.

Given to School:$4,335,811..........• College
of Chemistry: $2.3 million..........• Chemistry-Chemical
Engr.: $700,000..........• Lawrence
Hall of Science: $512,000..........• NR:
Insect Biology: $231,000..........• Forest
Products Lab: $113,000Investments:“As of June 30, 2005, the number
of share holdings by the University of California in Dow Chemical
Corporation was 2,161,841. The market value of
those shares on that date was $96,266,779.73.”

Given to School:$3,266,416.10Investments:“As of June 30, 2005, the number
of share holdings by the University of California in Dow Chemical
Corporation was 2,161,841. The market value of
those shares on that date was $96,266,779.73.”

Given to School:$95,932.00Investments:“As of June 30, 2005, the number
of share holdings by the University of California in Dow Chemical
Corporation was 2,161,841. The market value of
those shares on that date was $96,266,779.73.”

Given to School:$178,205.00Investments:“As of June 30, 2005, the number
of share holdings by the University of California in Dow Chemical
Corporation was 2,161,841. The market value of
those shares on that date was $96,266,779.73.”

Given to School:At least $7,570,000Investments: At least 58 shares
through A.G. Edwards portfolio, valued at $2591.86Notes: In 1978 DOW's President withdrew
money from CMU after Jane Fonda spoke there on economic democracy.
"[It] will not be resumed until we are convinced our dollars
are not expended in supporting those who would destroy us."
CMU got the message. It's new "Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow
College of Health Professions" touts Dow even though Dow only
gave $5 million; MI taxpayers gave $37.5 million.

Given to School: ???Investments: ???Notes: Dow Chemical gave the former Union Carbide
headquarters in South Charleston to the University of Charleston
in December of 2005. The 11-floor facility is known as Building
82. It and an adjacent parcel of land that is also being donated
were acquired by Midland-Mich.-based Dow with its 2001 purchase
of Union Carbide. The
gift has an estimated value of $7 million.

Given to School:$375,885Investments:NONotes:In 2003 Delta received a $500,000
grant (split with Central Michigan University) from the Herbert
H and Grace A Dow foundation, for government-mandated digital conversion
of their Public Television Stations.

Given to School:$357,916.04Investments:"As of December 31st, 2006, the
University of Illinois indirectly held, through investments in an
index fund, 5,459.69 shares of Dow Chemical Corporation
with a valuation of $218,060. This represents the
only stock holding of Dow Chemical for the University."

Given to School:$6,599,154.91Investments:"As of December 31st, 2006, the
University of Illinois indirectly held, through investments in an
index fund, 5,459.69 shares of Dow Chemical Corporation
with a valuation of $218,060. This represents the
only stock holding of Dow Chemical for the University."

Given to School:$12,853,419.58 ..........• College
of Literature, Science, and the Arts: $3,193,649.55..........• School
of Public Health: $3,193,127.50..........• College
of Engineering: $2,013,874.57..........• Ross
School of Business: $1,601,538.34..........• School
of Natural Resources and the Environment: $1,454,028.84Investments:NOResearch funded:$17,915,126Notes:"Strong Partnership"..........• In a Sept.
19, 2000 press release, the University's News and Information
Services spoke of the “strong partnership the University and
Dow Chemical have enjoyed over the years not only in financial support
but also in research initiatives.” The same press release
spoke of the “Exceptional support and partnership over the
years” between the University and Dow...........• “The
Dow Chemical Company has been one of our most
committed corporate partners,” Business School Dean B.
Joseph White said. “We are grateful to Dow - for their generosity,
for their support, and for their trust.”

Financial Ties..........• A $2.5
million gift from the Dow Chemical Company Foundation, used
to fund an endowed professorship: The Dow Chemical Company Professor
of Sustainable Science, Technology, and Commerce. The professorship
is a joint appointment between the UM Business School and SNRE,
created with the Sept. 2000 gift. The other $500,000 will support
the creation of the Dow Chemical Company Sustainable Research Facility
in the Dana Building...........• Dow awarded $1.2
million to the UM School of Public Heath in 1996. These funds
created a Dow Professorship, focusing on “the health effects,
risks and benefits of chemicals in the environment.”..........• In June 2001, James
Baker Jr, MD, was named as the first Ruth Dow Doan Professor of
Biological Nanotechnology. The professorship was established
in memory of the daughter of the founder of Dow Chemical Company.
The professorship was funded, in part, by the Herbert and Junia
Doan Foundation and the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation...........• Zhan
Chen is the Dow
Corning Assistant Professor of Chemistry...........• A 2001 gift of $5
million by the Gerstacker Foundation is helping to fund a new
College of Engineering laboratory facility. The new building will
be named after Carl Gerstacker, former chairman of Dow Chemical
Company. “The gift increases to over $8 million the total
amount awarded by the Foundation to U-M's College of Engineering.
Past contributions have supported endowments for graduate fellowships
and faculty development.”..........• The Herbert
H. Dow Building (1983), home of the Departments of Chemical
Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, was a gift of
the Herbert H. Dow Foundation and the Harry and Margaret Towsley
Foundation. Margaret Towsley was a daughter of Herbert Henry Dow,
the founder of the Dow Chemical Company. She founded the Foundation
in 1959 with an initial gift of $4 million in Dow Chemical stock...........• The Margaret
Dow Towsley wing in the Earl V. Moore School of Music on North
Campus houses the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments...........• Dow
supports the Center for Advanced Polymer Engineering Research (CAPER),
the Minority Engineering Program Office, the Macromolecular Science
and Engineering Center, the Kanicki Group at the University of Michigan
Organic and Molecular Electronics Laboratory, the Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), the Center
for Sustainable Systems, some Chemical Engineering Scholarships,
and provides partial funding for third-year Corporate Environmental
Management Program students.

Alumni Ties..........• Approximately 600
alumni are employed by Dow (as of Sept. 2000)..........• Dow Chemical Company
Business President Bob Wood is
a UM alumnus.

Administrative Ties..........• Scott
Noesen of Dow Chemical is Co-Chair of the External Advisory Board,
which oversees the Corporate Environmental Management Program at
UM...........• Harold
T. Shapiro was the 10th president of the University of Michigan,
serving from 1980 to 1987. He has served on the Board of Directors
of Dow Chemical since 1985. The Shapiro Undergraduate Library at
UM is named after him.

Sponsorship Ties..........• Dow
Chemical co-sponsored the 16th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education
(2000), the 2002 ASEE Summer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty
in Boulder, Colorado, and the “Sustainable Human Development”
lecture
series in the 1999-2000 school year.

Research and Advisory Ties..........• The William Davidson
Institute of the University of Michigan has recommended
growth ideas for Dow in Latin America and developed a credit
risk for Dow in SE Asia, among other research and advice. Three
UM students were sent to Sao Paulo in the summer of 2000 to conduct
research and analysis for Dow, under the auspices of the Davidson
Institute.

Given to School:$10,724,439.62Investments:NONotes: Frank H. Brod, Dow’s VP, Controller
and an ex-officio member of the Finance Committee, is a member of
the External Accounting Advisory Board at Michigan State. Dow gave
the University $326,000 in Sept. 2003 to fund dioxin testing among
wildlife in the Tittabawassee River floodplain. Dow gave
$5 million to build the Dow Institute for Materials Research,
a 46,000-square-foot addition to the east wing of MSU's Engineering
Building, in 1996.

Given to School:$66,097.50Investments: ???Notes:Dow funds numerous professorships at NWU
(these are a few examples: 1,
2,
3,
4),
provides scholarships and fellowships for students (for example
this
and this)
and conducts research there (more information here,
here,
and here).

Given to School:At least $5.5 millionInvestments: ???Notes: In 2006 Dow
gave Penn State $2 million to endow a fund to benefit Penn State's
department of chemical engineering -- the largest endowed gift made
by a corporation in the University's history. In addition, Dow has
designated Penn State a key recruiting university.

"The relationship between Penn State and Dow spans more than
four decades, and we are deeply grateful for Dow's generosity,"
said Penn State President Graham B. Spanier. "It is a testament
to the high quality of our programs when major companies like Dow
include Penn State in the limited pool from which they recruit."

Penn State receives annual grants from Dow in support of engineering
student groups and the Department of Chemical Engineering. Previous
philanthropy to Penn State also includes a faculty chair in chemical
engineering, support for an interview room in the MBNA Career Services
Center, and research projects in agricultural sciences, chemistry,
chemical engineering, earth and mineral sciences, and materials
research. Dow also is a member of the Institute for the Study of
Business Markets in the Smeal College of Business.

The international student campaign to hold Dow
accountable for Bhopal, and its other toxic legacies around the world.
For more information about the campaign, or for problems regarding this
website, contact Shana Ortman, the US Coordinator for the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.
Last updated:
November 11, 2008

WE
ALL LIVE IN
BHOPAL

"The year 2003 was a special
year in the history of the campaign for justice in Bhopal. It was the
year when student and youth supporters from at least 30 campuses in the
US and India took action against Dow Chemical or in support of the demands
of the Bhopal survivors. As we enter the 20th year of the unfolding Bhopal
disaster, we can, with your support, convey to Dow Chemical that the fight
for justice in Bhopal is getting stronger and will continue till justice
is done. We look forward to your continued support and good wishes, and
hope that our joint struggle will pave the way for a just world free of
the abuse of corporate power."